Competition comes mostly from other regional and national furniture chains, including HOM Furniture and Slumberland, along with a number of locally owned stores.
May Ayim's poem "They're People Like Us" is cited in Paul Beatty's 2008 novel Slumberland.
Cupid (Written by Sam Cooke) 7" Split w/ Magpies I Want a Love I can See (I Wish I Was a Slumberland Record #3; Sleeve by Adrian Tomine & colored by hand; Recorded Spring 1994)
Sarasota Opera presented Little Nemo in Slumberland, an opera with music by Daron Hagen and words by J.D. McClatchy, in November 2012.